My Son the Box

Allan Sherman - My Son the Box

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Artist: Allan Sherman
Edition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Music Label: Rhino Handmade
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Jack Benny Introduction [#][Outtake]
  2. The Ballad of Harry Lewis
  3. Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max
  4. Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
  5. My Zelda
  6. The Streets of Miami
  7. Sarah Jackman
  8. Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick a Dress O' Cotton)
  9. Seltzer Boy
  10. Oh Boy
  11. Shticks and Stones: Gimme Jack Cohen/Levittown/Little David Susskind
  12. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"), Scene I: Outside ...
  13. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"): Wouldn't It Be Lovely
  14. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"), Scene II: At the ...
  15. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"): With a Little Bit ...
  16. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"), Scene III: At ...
  17. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"): On the Streets ...
  18. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"), Scene IV: At His Home
  19. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"): I Got the ...
  20. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"), Scene V: In the Candy
  21. My Fair Lady ("Goldeneh Moments from Broadway"): Get Me to the ...
Music CD 2
  1. Al 'N Yetta
  2. Medley: Barry Is the Baby's Name/Horowitz/Get on the Garden Freeway
  3. Mexican Hat Dance
  4. The Bronx Bird Watcher
  5. The Let's All Call Up A.T. &T. And Protest to the Predent March
  6. Harvey and Sheila
  7. Won't You Come Home, Disraeli?
  8. No One's Perfect
  9. When I Was a Lad
  10. Me
  11. Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other: Molly Malone/Old ...
  12. Chopped Liver [#][Outtake]
  13. Smart Ass [#][Outtake]
  14. You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie
  15. Automation
  16. I See Bones
  17. Hungarian Goulash No. 5
  18. Headaches
  19. Here's to the Crabgrass
Music CD 3
  1. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)
  2. One Hippopotami
  3. Ratt Fink
  4. You're Getting to Be a Rabbit with Me
  5. Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue
  6. Hail to Thee, Fat Person
  7. Sue Me
  8. The Twelve Gifts of Christmas [Unedited Single Version]
  9. Skin
  10. Lotsa Luck
  11. Green Stamps
  12. Holiday for States
  13. You Need an Analyst
  14. The Drop-Outs March
  15. I Can't Dance
  16. Night and Day (With Punctuation Marks)
  17. Little Butterball
  18. Good Advice
  19. My Son, the Vampire [Single Version]
Music CD 4
  1. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp) [New 1964 ...]
  2. Grow, Mrs. Goldfarb
  3. Your Mother's Here to Stay
  4. Pills
  5. Shine on, Harvey Bloom
  6. J.C. Cohen
  7. Pop Hates the Beatles
  8. Beautiful Teamsters
  9. Kiss of Myer
  10. America's a Nice Italian Name
  11. The Twelve Gifts of Christmas [Edited Version][Edit]
  12. Bye Bye Blumberg
  13. It's a Most Unusual Play
  14. The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song
  15. That Old Back Scratcher
  16. Call Me
  17. Peyton Place, U.S.A.
  18. The Drinking Man's Diet
  19. Secret Code
  20. The Painless Dentist Song
  21. Chim Chim Cheree
  22. Go to Sleep, Paul Revere!
  23. An Average Song
  24. When I'm in the Mood for Love (You're in the Mood for Herring) ...
  25. Overweight People [#][Outtake]
Music CD 5
  1. Crazy Downtown [Extended Version]
  2. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp) [New 1964 ...]
  3. Where Do You Come from Tex [#][Outtake]
  4. Between 18th & 19th on Chestnut Street [#][Outtake]
  5. Christmas '65 (Draft Cards) [#][Outtake]
  6. Intro to Allan Sherman Record [Promo Version][#]
  7. Introduction - Short Songs: Hello Muddah /A Song Written [Nevada Style/
  8. Taking Lessons
  9. A Waste of Money
  10. How Van Nuys Got Its Name
  11. Smog Gets in Your Eyes
  12. Scotch And/Or Water
  13. Sorry 'Bout That
  14. The Learner's Brassiere
  15. Mononeucleosis
  16. In Which I Finally Admit That I Won World War II Single-Handed
  17. Dodgin' the Draft
  18. The Rebel
  19. Warning to Those Who Have a Low Threshold of Sex
  20. When I'm in the Mood for Love (You're in the Mood for Herring)
  21. Second Hand Nose
  22. A Few Words About the Chinese New Year
  23. Sam You Made the Pants Too Long
  24. If I Could Play Piano
  25. Son of Peyton Place
  26. His Own Little Island [#][Outtake]
Music CD 6
  1. Odd Ball [Single Version]
  2. His Own Little Island [Single Version]
  3. Makin' Coffee
  4. Vending Machines
  5. There Are Cups
  6. That's How the Change Is Made
  7. The Wonderful Tree in the Forest
  8. Scott Cups
  9. Westchester Hadassah
  10. Strange Things in My Soup
  11. Turn Back the Clock
  12. Signs
  13. Down the Drain
  14. Plan Ahead
  15. Togetherness
  16. Spanish Flea
  17. My Aunt Minnie
  18. If I Were a Tishman
  19. There's No Governor Like Our New Governor
  20. Dum Dum Song [#][Outtake]
  21. Somewhere (A Make-Believe Recording Session for a Make-Believe ...)
  22. Westchester Hadassah [Alternate Version][#]
  23. Turn Back the Clock [Takes 1 & 2][#][Version]
  24. Down the Drain [Take 1][#][Version]
  25. Plan Ahead [Take 1][#][Version]
  26. Togetherness [Alternate Version][#]
  27. Spanish Flea [Alternate Version][#]
  28. If I Were a Tishman [Take 1][#][Version]
  29. There's No Governor Like Our New Governor [Takes 2 & 3]
  30. Introduction
  31. Encron Is a Brand New Fiber
  32. Put Them All Together They Spell Encron
  33. There Is a Fiber Called Encron
  34. Encron Alive, Alive-O
  35. Encron's the Name
  36. Why They Call It Encron
  37. Encron, Encron
  38. Encron Is a Great New Fiber
  39. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp) [Live][#]

Free Music Notes for My Son the Box

Free Music Review: Six Allan Sherman albums and the proverbial much, much more
Hit: 5 Stars

"Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh,
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining."

That alone should remind you of why having "My Son, The Box" would be a good thing. The main reason would be that this includes the complete works of Allan Sherman (almost: you would still have to get "Peter & The Commissar," Sherman's concert with Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops separately). Besides, you get a beaten up box for the box part (Sherman would have loved this, although he probably would have loved being alive even more). For years we have had to put up with only a single Alan Sherman hits collection on CD waiting for all of his albums to finally come out. The good news is that here are six of them, with the better news being that each is filled to the gills with bonus tracks, and the only bad news being that you have to go for the whole set all at once because (for now) this is the only way they are available. Not all the tracks are cherce, but you get the whole side of beef here:

"My Son the Folk Singer," Sherman's 1962 debut album, which made him an overnight success (aided by word from the White House that JFK loved "Sarah Jackman"). "All" Sherman did was take recognizable tunes and give them new lyrics. Thus, "Frere Jacques" became "Sarah Jackman" (sung with Christine Nelson) and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" became "The Ballad of Harry Lewis" (which offers the immortal line about the building "where the drapes of Roth are stored"). Also included are "Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max," "My Zelda," "Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick a Dress O' Cotton)," and there are ten bonus tracks taken from his peculiar version of "My Fair Lady" (e.g., "Get me to the Temple on Time").

"My Son, the Celebrity" (1963) was my first exposure to Alan Sherman and remains my favorite. There is not one song on this album (i.e., the first eleven tracks) that I do not treasure. If you force me to name favorites I would go with "Bronx Bird Watcher," "Let's All Call Up A.T. &T. And Protest to the President March," "Harvey and Sheila," "No One's Perfect," and the two that I have been known to sign out loud, "Me" and the "Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other" medley. Tacked on here are some choice outtakes, "Chopped Liver" and "Smart Ass," But when you get to "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie" you have actually jumped ahead to the next album.

"My Son, The Nut" hit #1 on the album charts in 1963 and you know it was on the strength of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp)" (remember the game? "You will love it, love it madly, it's a new game brought to you by Milton Bradley"). I liked "Hungarian Goulash No. 5" and there is a reason that "Hail to Thee, Fat Person" ends the greatest hits CD. Before we get to the next album Debbie Reynolds shows up for "Sue Me" and we get the single version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Okay, things are getting complicated, but when you get to Track 9 on Disc 3, "Skin," we have moved on to 1964's "Allan in Wonderland." This album did not sell as well as the first three, which might be why they are splitting up albums this way on this six-CD set. "Lotsa Luck" is okay, "Night and Day (With Punctuation Marks)" has its moments (as Victor Borge could have told you), and "Good Advice" is also okay. But this was clearly a weaker effort. Even the single version of "My Son, the Vampire" lacks the proper bite (insert rim shot here).

Also from 1964 is "For Swingin' Livers Only," but first we get the 1964 version of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah." Tracks 2-12 constitute the album, which includes the edited version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Pop Hates the Beatles." This one is better than the previous album, but not on the level of the first three.

Okay, we are still on Disc 4 but now up to 1965's "My Name is Allan" (you have to see the cover art to see he had the same childhood photographer as Barbra Streisand), but is another sub-par effort (just listen to "The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song"). Songs like "That Old Back Scratcher" and "Call Me" seem like second-class retreads of earlier material. "Peyton Place U.S.A." and "It's a Most Unusual Play" are the two best tracks, more for their satire than the linguistic wit that was Sherman's hallmark (see "Chim Chim Cheree" for an example of the latter).

Disc 5 starts with the extended version of "Crazy Downtown" and a bunch of outtakes before getting to 1966's "Allan Sherman Live! (Hoping You Are the Same)," where he does more standup between songs than ever before. This does get him back to recording live in front of an orchestra in Las Vegas, but the material is just okay.

Disc 6 gets us to Sherman's final release for Warner Bros., "Togetherness" from 1967, and finds him heading in strange directions (check out the title track and "Plan Ahead") Sherman's studio recordings are not as good as when he is live in front of an audience. The last track on the album, "There's No Governor Like Our New Governor" is about Ronald Reagan, and has some added irony given what we know now (there is also some other takes for added historical interest). We end with a whole bunch of songs about Enron (the fiber) and at the end we return again to the best track here to end on a good note, to wit:

"Wait a minute, it stopped hailing,
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing,
Playing baseball, gee that's better,
Muddah Fadduh please disregard this letter."
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